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Central Europe
German MPs promote sex purchase ban
Various members of the German Bundestag are campaigning to limit prostitution. They suggest a ban on sex purchase through a book. The book 'The Nordic Model – A Possibility for Germany?' was written by Social Democrats (SPD), the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the liberal FDP. The editors are the former…
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Northern Europe
Music producer in Sweden convicted of discrimination against gay artist
In Sweden, a Christian music producer has been sentenced to pay 25,000 kronor (more than 2,400 euros) for discrimination against a gay artist. This is what the Norwegian newspaper [Dagen](https://www.dagen.se/nyheter/2021/12/20/kristen-musikproducent-falld-i-domstol/) writes. The music producer, who describes himself as a “fundamentalist baptist”, runs a company in western Sweden that customers can…
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Central Europe
Austrian bishop: Don't compare corona with the Nazi era
The Austrian bishop Hermann Glettler calls it “dangerous” to compare the current debate about corona measure with the Nazi dictatorship. There must be a better understanding of different groups in society. The Catholic clergyman from Innsbruck said that in an interview with the Tiroler Tageszeitung. In Austria, the government has…
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Western Europe
Statue of Saint Michael must disappear, French judge rules
The Western French municipality of Les Sables-d'Olonne has six months to remove the statue of Saint Michael from a square in the name of secularism. A judge ruled this last week after a complaint lodged by a group of freethinkers. A statue of Saint Michael has no place in the…
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Northern Europe
Swedish company unveils Covid-19 microchip implant
A Swedish company has shown in a video how a corona passport can be implanted as a microchip into a human body. Some Christians speculate that this could be the fulfilment of the Biblical prophecy about the “mark of the beast” and choose therefore not to vaccinate. International media, such…
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Eastern Europe
Ukrainian church leader pleads for Christmas on the Western date
The Metropolitan of Kiev, Epiphanius, wants a more Western outlook for his Orthodox Church of Ukraine. That signal he has given with his proposal to celebrate Christmas in December instead of January. In an interview with Radio Svoboda Epiphanius says that it might take ten years before the church is…
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European Union
European churches struggle with vaccination for Christmas services
German immunologist Harald Renz advises churches to work with compulsory vaccination for the Christmas services in church, [PRO](https://www.pro-medienmagazin.de/immunologe-empfiehlt-mindestens-2g-regel-fuer-weihnachtsgottesdienste/) reports. Across Europe, churches struggle with Christmas services amidst a pandemic. With such a so-called 2G system, only vaccinated people or those who recently recovered from Covid-19 are allowed to enter. Renz…
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Eastern Europe
Russian bill: Surrogacy only available to Russian citizens
A group of parliamentarians has submitted a bill under which surrogacy programs will only be available to Russian citizens in Russia. Too many children end in abuse or sexual slavery, the politicians say. Meanwhile, it is not the first bill submitted by the authors to the Duma, Interfax news agency…
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Central Europe
Europeans have no “right to country, family and God”, says Orban
The Hungarian Prime Minister Orban gives a signal to the European Union that the Hungarian identity will always have priority over European rulings. “Europeans today have no right to their country, their language, their culture, their family and their God.” According to a letter on Orban's website, the government is…
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Eastern Europe
Putin: Pope Francis and I can protect Christianity
According to the Russian president, he and the pope could jointly protect Christians. Putin said so while congratulating the leader of the Catholic Church with his 85th birthday on Friday. According to the Russian leader, he and the pope can “through joint efforts, do a lot to protect the rights…
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